Wow, committed already!  I think that was the easiest patch I've ever
submitted :)

Any speculation on when this might be released?

Thanks.
-Tom

On 5/22/07, Tom Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Done.   https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-121

Thanks!
-Tom

On 5/22/07, Niall Pemberton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/22/07, Tom Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi --
> >
> > I wanted to use ThresholdingOutputStream to basically split output
> > over multiple files when a byte count is reached (Similar to a rolling
> > file log).  I could do this easily by implementing thresholdReached().
> >  The method would close the current stream, create a new stream, and
> > then reset the written and thresholdExceeded values.  The problem, of
> > course, is that I can't change the values of written and
> > thresholdExceeded.  Basically I want to be able to hit a byte
> > threshold multiple times instead of just once.
> >
> > In order to do the same thing with the current implementation, I need
> > to override checkThreshold( int ) and then try to keep track of how
> > many bytes were written to all previous output streams:
> >     protected void checkThreshold(int count) throws IOException
> >     {
> >         if ( getByteCount() - writtenToPreviousStreams + count > threshold )
> >         {
> >             writtenToPreviousStreams = getByteCount();
> >             //switch to new output stream
> >         }
> >     }
> >
> > And I would have to override isThresholdExceeded() otherwise it would
> > return true even though it is not true for the current stream. And
> > then thresholdReached() is never called and has to be an empty method.
> >  So you can see this becomes a little more cumbersome.
> >
> > So would there be any problems with adding:
> > protected setThresholdExceeded( boolean thresholdExceeded ) and
> > setByteCount( long written )
> > or maybe just a protected reset() method?
> >
> > The only other change that would need to be made: currently in
> > checkThreshold(int), thresholdExceeded needs to be set to true before
> > the call to thresholdReached() so that the value may be reset to false
> > inside thresholdReached().  But this should not cause any problem
> > AFAIK since thresholdExceeded is private anyway.
> >
> >   protected void checkThreshold(int count) throws IOException
> >   {
> >     if (!thresholdExceeded && (written + count > threshold))
> >     {
> >       thresholdExceeded = true; //this was previously set after the
> > thresholdReached() call
> >       thresholdReached();
> >     }
> >   }
> >
> > Any comments?  Thanks.
>
> Adding setters for thresholdExceeded and byteCount is allowing people
> to shoot themselves in the foot IMO - but I think reset() is a good
> idea. Best thing is to create a Jira ticket for this:
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/io/issue-tracking.html
>
> Niall
>
> > -Tom
>
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